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MAXIMA

By Claudia SPARROW

INDIE RIGHTS - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World

Documentary - Completed 2021

A multi-billion dollar corporation meets their match in a fearless Indigenous woman who remains uncowed after years of violent intimidation.

Festivals
& Awards

Palm Springs International 2019

Best of Fest

HotDocs 2019

Honorable Mention

Woodstock 2019

Honorable Mention, Grand Jury

Slamdance 2020

Honorable Mention, Grand Jury

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 88 mn
- Director(s)
- Claudia SPARROW
- Cast
- Maxima Acuna ATALAYA CHAUPE
- Synopsis
- An indigenous woman from the Peruvian Andes who cannot read or write, stands up
  to the largest gold producer in the world, US based Newmont Mining Corporation. Máxima is fearlessly fighting to stop a multi-billion-dollar mining project launched by Newmont and partially financed by the World Bank. This project would forever destroy and contaminate critical water and land ecosystems. But without Máxima’s land, the project is not possible.
  
  A land dispute quickly turns in to a landmark case of human rights abuse; the environment and hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake, so Máxima fights on. Throughout Máxima’s fight for justice, we reveal the mechanics of how a transnational corporation manages to get away with human rights and environmental crimes, The World’s Bank role in this, and the resilience of one woman who refuses to back down.